The @GlobalPubInvt network has published an important report today that demonstrates how #GPI is becoming a serious and concrete proposal for transforming sustainable development finance. Read in full at https://t.co/HEDBRYjbsD #UNGA78
As a Black woman, I am deeply uninterested in spending the second half of my life proving how much I can endure.
I would like to explore how much joy I can hold.
Free Palestine
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Free all colonized people
Free the world
Free them all!
@kenyanpundit Been stuck here for over 16 hours! Folks are exhausted, minimum communication coming through, just postponement announcements. A total disgrace. Do better @KenyaAirports
1/2 AN OPEN LETTER TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT . ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ON AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER STRIKES
Your Excellency,
I write this letter as a tourism industry player of over thirty years and, frankly, as a frustrated Kenyan. This morning, August 30, 2026, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport ground to a halt again. Aircraft sat on tarmacs, passengers stood at gates with no answers. Kenya Airways, Jambojet, and international carriers scrambled to manage delays running into hours. This is not a new story. It is the same story we lived through in February 2026.
It is the same story the Transport Cabinet Secretary said was resolved after his return-to-work deal. It is the same story that a strike notice in July threatened to reopen, and here we are again, at the end of August, watching it happen for what feels like the third act of a play we should never have had to sit through twice, let alone three times.
Your Excellency, how is this still happening?
I ask this not as a rhetorical flourish but as a genuine, exhausted question from someone who has spent decades convincing tour operators in Europe, Asia, and North America that Kenya is a destination they can trust with their clients' money and their reputations. Every one of us in this industry has, at some point in the last year, had to sit across from an agent and explain why their client's flight was delayed four hours, why a connecting safari group missed its bush flight, why a conference delegation arrived a day late. We absorb the reputational cost. We absorb the financial cost. We smile and say Kenya is still worth it, and then the same dispute resurfaces months later because it was never actually settled, only paused.
We are told we are chasing five million visitor arrivals. That target requires unbroken confidence in Kenya's air connectivity, because tourism is built entirely on the promise that a booking made today will still be honoured on the day of travel. A tourist who cannot trust that their flight will depart on schedule does not simply tolerate the inconvenience. They quietly choose Zanzibar, Mauritius, or Cape Town next time, and they tell their friends to do the same. Nobody sends out a press release when a booking is redirected. It just happens, silently, one cancelled reservation at a time, and by the time the numbers show up in our arrival statistics, it is too late to reverse the damage.
What troubles me most is that this is not a natural disaster or a global shock outside our control. This is a labour dispute between a government agency and its own workforce, over a collective bargaining agreement, pay, and working conditions that, by the union's own account, had not been reviewed in fifteen years. That is not a controllers' failure. That is a governance failure. If the grievances are legitimate, they should have been resolved permanently in February, not managed with a temporary return-to-work formula that bought a few months of calm before the same fault line cracked open again in July and again now in August.
Your Excellency, I ask you directly why has this been allowed to become a recurring event rather than a resolved chapter? Who within your government is accountable for the fact that a "return-to-work deal" earlier this year clearly did not include a durable settlement of the underlying issues? Tourism, horticulture, and cargo cannot keep absorbing the cost of a dispute that should have been closed permanently after its first occurrence.
I am not writing to score political points. I am writing because I, and thousands like me in this sector, have skin in this game every single day. We do not get to strike when things go wrong for us. We simply lose the booking, lose the client, and start over.
europe spent 400 years using slave labour in colonies to build their wealth, rebranded this extraction model in the 20th century and somehow their citizens still believe their social conditions is a result of some superior intellect rather than inhuman violence
"Why do Americans think that their lives are more important than the lives of Kenyans?"
My CNN report on the public opposition to an Ebola isolation facility for Americans in Kenya
People MUST resist Freehold Land being turned into Leasehold and oppressive TAXES imposed with the Land being auctioned upon failure to pay the those taxes.Objective is to disposess people of their Lands and turn them into labourers for the new owners.We have a CRIMINAL regime
Let me shock you... Kenyatta Avenue was "carpeted and painted" in less than 24 hours because we have global visitors. 😆. It means KENHA and others can do their jobs but they are too lazy and corrupt. It means they can fix a road in days, and not years.